Week #28

Hey Family and Friends,

What's going on? Another week has come and gone and I don't even know how it happened. Saying goodbye to Sister Minson was so hard. I can't even believe that she is back home In Arizona. My New companion is Sister Neibaur and she is just simply amazing. She is from Pleasant Grove and graduated in 2016. She went and did a semester at SUU before her mission and absolutely loved it. She is the Youngest and has 3 brothers. Wednesday morning we had a training meeting with the trainers and the new missionaries with President and Sister Cooper. It was so much fun. As soon as I saw Sister Neibaur I knew she was going to be my companion.

I had MLC this Friday and it was one of the most spiritual meetings I have had on my mission. It was incredible. I can not even tell you how amazing it is to be with other missionaries who are working hard. It is so motivating! Our meeting was centered on finding! Sister Lesuma and I got to give a training in the Faith to Find. It was a lot of fun. For the first time I wasn't terrified. We read the story of Almas mission to the apostate Zoramites, and related it to how we too can have faith like Alma and help those who are in need of help.

Patience is a Christlike attribute that I have been working on. I have never been one to be patient, but I am learning each day how to trust in the Lords timing. Satan works hard on us during the time that God has asked us to wait. There must be opposition in all things (2 Nephi 2:11). When we are asked to be patient we are going to feel like nothing is getting done, or time is being wasted, but we all know that there is someone far greater and more perfect than us that can see the bigger picture. We had a really cool experience this week. Last transfer I felt a little disconnect from the spirit. I wasn't getting as strong of spiritual promptings that I use to get in Palm Harbor. Saturday, Sister Neibaur and I set specific goals for the day and knelt in prayer and asked Heavenly Father to put people in our path who would be receptive to our message. We were walking by the dorms on campus, and we were talking to a man who wasn't interested at all but we were talking to him about his schooling. Another man walked past and I got the strongest spiritual promoting that we needed to talk to him. I had no idea how this was possible because we were in the middle of a conversation. We saw the man walk away and for a moment my heart sank because I didn't listen to a promoting. We finished our conversation and started to walk away. As we walked away Sister Neibaur said "we should have talked to that man that walked past us!" No way this was not a coincident. We turned around and walked in the direction he was headed and all of a sudden we see him walking towards us. We stopped him and started to talk to him. Little did we know that he has been searching for a church to go to since he had been at college!

I realized something so important about this experience. Earlier that morning we had prayed for the Lord to put someone in our path who would be receptive to our message. I was thinking about one of the trainings from MLC and someone mentioned that the Lord loves all his missionaries but he doesn't trust them all. It wasn't that I didn't get spiritual promptings last transfer it was that I wasn't following them as closely as I could have. Therefore the Lord didn't trust me so to say! Wither or not Conner acts upon the message we shared with him. The Lord gave me an opportunity to prove myself. I'm so grateful for the promptings of the spirit.

Right after we met Conner we headed back to the church to eat some lunch and this guy came right up to us and asked if we were mormons. Sister Neibaur and I looked at each other in surprise. He asked if he could come to church with us on Sunday! Guess what he actually came. His name is Aaron. After church we had a lesson with him. Rose came and she bore her testimony on Jospeh Smith. It is so cool to see how far she has come. She is incredible. Aaron is coming to FHE tonight and we have another lesson with him on Wednesday! We are trying to fill up our schedule with lessons, like we should anyways, but especially because it is spring break here at USF so campus is going to be dead this week.

Rabi is really progressing. He is keeping all of his commitments and accepted the invitation to be baptized in April 9th! He taught us The Who restoration lesson this week. It was so amazing. We also had Johns baptism this Sunday. The other YSA Sisters, Sisters Suman and House are such an amazing example of faith. I love being able to work with them!!! I love you all. Always remember that prayer is the passport to peace! Have the best week ever!!

Love,

Sister Kenzie Graham

Tampa Bay YSA C